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Pencavel, John - 2003

After expanding in the 1970s, unionism in Britain contracted substantially over the next two decades. This paper argues that the statutory reforms in the 1980s and 1990s were of less consequence in accounting for the decline of unionism than the withdrawal of the state's indirect support for...

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British Unions in Decline : An Examination of the 1980s Fall in Trade Union Recognition

Disney, Richard - 1994

The authors analyze establishment-level data from the three Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984 and …

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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay

Cassoni, Adriana - 2000

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991) followed by industry-wide or firm-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and...

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Standard-Rate Wage Setting, Labor Quality, and Unions

Brown, Charles - 1985

-collar workers, especially those covered by collective bargaining agreements and those who work for large employers.This paper … distributions of alternative wages for workers, it pushes employers toward the middle of the quality distribution. Second, union … employers are free to alter the quality of their workforces …

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Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification

Dickens, William T. - 1985

the concentration of jobs among a few employers in a geographic area. The same specification was estimated for …

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Collective Bargaining Laws and Threat Effects of Unionism in the Determination of Police Compenstation

Freeman, Richard B. - 1985

This study examines the effect of public sector unions on compensation packages. The model of the compensation determination process incorporates distinctive institutional aspects of public sector labor relations, particularly the differences in collective bargaining laws across states. The...

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Unionism Comes to the Public Sector

Freeman, Richard B. - 1984

This paper argues that public sector labor relations is best understood in a framework that focuses on unions' ability to shift demand curves rather than to raise wages, as is the case in the private sector. It reviews the public sector labor relations literature and finds that: (i) public...

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Union Wage Settlements During a Disinflation

Taylor, John B. - 1982

This paper examines the role of union wage contracts in the persistence of inflation, and the implication of these contracts for the problem of disinflation in the United States. A quantitative model of overlapping con- tracts explicitly oriented toward the major union sector is developed. The...

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The Impact of Collective Bargaining : Can the New Facts Be Explained by Monopoly Unionism?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1982

In this paper we focus our attention on the question of whether union/nonunion differences in nonwage outcomes can, in fact, be explained in terms of standard price-theoretic responses to real wage effects, as opposed to the real effect of unionism on economic behavior. We reach three basic...

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Union Wage Practices and Wage Dispersion within Establishments

Freeman, Richard B. - 1981

This study uses establishment level data to examine the effect of unionism on the wage structure within establishments. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through explicit wage practices, such as single rate or automatic...

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